EL GRECO - (National Gallery)

EL GRECO (1541 - 1614)

This book addresses the full range of the artist's achievements (including sculpture), and considers his personality from both a religious and intellectual point of view. Every stage of El Greco's career is represented here, from his Byzantine icons to the late altarpieces in which the artist's individual treatment of mystical imagery reached its climax. El Greco's different subjects - including religious, mythological, genre, landscape and portrait works - are addressed, as well as the historical context in which the paintings were made.
Published to accompany the exhibition El Greco organised by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery, London.

Forfattere:

David Davies is a pre-eminent El Greco scholar who taught at Birkbeck and University College, University of London; Sir John Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford; Gabriele Finaldi is Curatorial Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado; Keith Christiansen is Curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Xavier Bray is an Assistant Curator at the National Gallery, London.